Review: Let's Be Cops (2014)

So, here's a funny story. I had been looking forward to Let's Be Cops for ages, and I wrote my review pretty much straight away, and then Jenna destroyed it. Well, what I mean is that her laptop somehow duplicated our Premium Rush review and deleted my Let's Be Cops one. Sadface! That was ages ago now, but I was just in Letterboxd when I realised I had copied and pasted my review in there! So, resurrected from the dead, here's my review!

Note to Jenna's laptop: Please be kind, I really want to publish this! Sorry!!

On a plus note, since all that happened I have managed to see the film so I can comment :-)

Let's Be Cops is a fake buddy cop movie about two friends, Ryan (Jake Johnson) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr) who have never found their true calling in Los Angeles. They decide to move back to their home town, but first they go to a costume party as cops. It turns out that they pass for the real deal, and so the two friends pretend to be real cops, which lands them in trouble with a local crime gang.

I worried that all the funny moments would be in the trailer leaving nothing else, but I was wrong. There were plenty of moments where I laughed out loud, mainly due to the chemistry between the two main characters. I read that most of the dialogue was improvised, which worked really well. The film itself introduced a new character who I don't remember being in the trailer, Pupa, played by Planet's Funniest Animals host, Keegan-Michael Key. Pupa was hilarious. He was the highlight of the film for me!

The only thing that let the film down for me was that there was virtually nothing new brought to the table. There's the basic plot of two guys pretending to be cops, but then everything else is just a mash-up of other films I've seen. The plot was almost the same as The Heat for a start, Pupa reminded me a lot of Jamie Foxx's character in Horrible Bosses, and there was an End of Watch vibe to it all too. I can forgive it though, because it's still really funny.  

I think they were aiming for the success of The Heat but the male version but lets not kid about, this is not The Heat, this isn't even in the same area code as The Heat!  Yes it's funny but it for me it wasn't hilarious and its not at all memorable, I can run off 20 brilliant one-liners from The Heat but I am struggling to remember a single funny part from this!

I thought the soundtrack was brilliant too, once I find out what the name of that dub-step song is, it'll be playing in my little girly car as I drive to the supermarket on a Sunday morning! Hard as nails, me.

All in all, Let's Be Cops wasn't as good as I hoped it would be, but it was still a funny film and I wasn't disappointed. Bring on Horrible Bosses 2! <--- obviously this was written a while ago!! haha!

Looking Forward to Seeing at the Cinema this Month...August 2014

I am actually writing my part of this post ridiculously early (its 1st July right now) because I'm off on holiday so I wanted get a bit ahead for Allie while I'm away!  There is nothing coming out this next month that excites me more than this:

The first film was amazing, we laughed, we cried (with laughter) and it had all the good parts of the series and more.  Now I know sequels are traditionally not as good as the originals but I don't see how this film could be bad.  If you haven't seen it yet, here is the trailer:

The Inbetweeners 2 is released in UK cinemas on 6th August, 2014.

 

P.S I can almost guarantee that this film is NSFT, NSFP and certainly NSFD (Full explanation here!)

Yeah you totally just stole the film that I wanted to pick! Now that I've seen the trailer I'm pretty certain this won't be as good as the first, but I'm still looking forward to it. Sticking with the comedy theme, I'm also really looking forward to Let's Be Cops.

 

I have so much love for Jake Johnson since my undying love for the TV Show New Girl. In fact I had to look up his name just because he will always be Nick Miller to me! I'm just hoping that the funny moments in the trailer is all there is, and that they've saved the best for the film itself. It's got to be better than Ride Along, right? Here's the trailer if you haven't seen it already:

 



Let's Be Cops is released in UK cinemas on 27th August, 2014.